Taliban warn Pakistan lawmakers over NATO supplies

March 25, 2012 at 11:27 a.m.

by The Associated Press

Maulana Fazal-ur-Rehman, right, chief of Pakistani religious party Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam, heads a meeting of opposition leaders on Saturday, March 24, 2012, to discuss a strategy for the forthcoming Parliament session scheduled to debate the terms of re-engagement with United States, in Islamabad, Pakistan. The main issue of the agenda is restoration of the NATO supply to neighboring Afghanistan, which which was suspended after NATO airstrikes that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers.
Maulana Fazal-ur-Rehman, right, chief of Pakistani religious party Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam, heads a meeting of opposition leaders on Saturday, March 24, 2012, to discuss a strategy for the forthcoming Parliament session scheduled to debate the terms of re-engagement with United States, in Islamabad, Pakistan. The main issue of the agenda is restoration of the NATO supply to neighboring Afghanistan, which which was suspended after NATO airstrikes that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers.

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — The Taliban have threatened to attack Pakistani lawmakers and their families if they support allowing NATO to resume shipping supplies through the country to troops in Afghanistan.

Pakistan closed its Afghan border crossings to NATO in November in retaliation for American airstrikes that accidentally killed 24 Pakistani soldiers.

Pakistan's parliament is scheduled to begin debate Monday on a revised relationship with the U.S. that could lead the border to be reopened.

Pakistani Taliban spokesman Ahsanullah Ahsan said Sunday that the group would attack the parliament building. He also said militants would "publicly slaughter" drivers ferrying NATO supplies.

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